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In “Mau,” a new documentary-cum-biopic, Canadian-born, Chicago-based designer Bruce Mau simply counts Coca-Cola bottles to give you a sense

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A new film about the celebrated graphic designer follows his career as the scale of his projects goes from small to extra large to global.

Ascension (pictured), Flee and Summer of Soul are just a few of the notable documentaries included in DOC NYC’s features short list for this year. The festival has unveiled the 15 features and 15 short ...

NOW Magazine By Kevin Ritchie NN Influential Canadian designer Bruce Mau’s super clean aesthetic gains new dimensions in a documentary portrait that takes too long to go from perfunctory to fascinating. The directors seriously backload the movie’s most interesting material: how Mau’s working-class upbringing in Sudbury shaped a worldview that would attract Coca-Cola and the Saudi Arabian government. Mau is mostly laudatory but occasionally gently critical, extolling his optimism and belief in design as an agent of social change via key projects. The final 20 minutes jarringly a...